ITT Completely useless facts. >Knock Off has the same sound

Skunktank's specific shade of purple is not used in any other Pokemon

>>28339642
Slowpoke evolves into Slowking

>>28339711
thats not useless

>>28339642
Joey's Rattata actually has 0 IVS in every stat.

>>28339777
And a gentle nature. 100% shit

>>28339642
Leaf is worst girl

>>28339777
Does that mean it's proud of its power?

A Kadabra holding an Everstone will still evolved when traded.

Torchic has a gender difference.

Drifblim line is the only non-gen 3 evolutionary line in the Fluctuating experience group.

>>28339821
>Kadabra
Not anymore.

>A Kadabra holding an Everstone will still evolved when traded

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>>28339811
don't lie, the worst is your mom

>>28339642
post yfw raticate is still useless but alolan raticate is OU

Cofagrigas can't be used online in Black/White without nicknaming it first

>>28339777
>>28339792
I'm not sure if I should question trips, but is this really true?

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Kyurem is the only Pokemon to have transparency in its sprite.

>>28339642
Raichu glow slightly in the dark.

Pidgey has the same beak as articuno

>>28339907
0 IVs, gentle nature.

>>28339907
yes it is

>>28339918
I believe the same applies to the models.

>>28339955
About Articuno, if you notice it doesn't have chest hair: that's its beard.

>>28339907
Yeah, Joey is programmed that way since he's one of the early game trainers. Since he's the first one you fight, he has the lowest difficulty setting at straight 0 IV/EVs.

>>28339988
No, Nincada has a transarent model.

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This patch of grass in Floccesy ranch has no hitbox, it doesn't shake when you step on it.

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>>28340044
I've never actually played HGSS because of my hate for GSC, gen 2 Pokemon, and the knowledge that HGSS doesn't fix the problems of GSC.

But goddamn does this look beautiful.

Rhydon has the same cry as Charizard (not in gen 6 though anymore)

>>28340032
not him, but true

>>28340086
Thats B2W2.

>>28340086
>HGSS
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>>28340086
>>28340044
Wait, fuck, this is Unova. What the fuck is wrong with me.
I haven't played BW2 either, just BW1.

>>28340105
And Poliwag used to have the same cry as Ditto!

>>28339642
Ha, Jontron Raticate.

>>28340086
>>28340119
>never played HGSS and BW2
Missing out tbqh

>>28339821
TCG player here, what is a kadabra?

>>28339642
Pokémon is short for "Pocket Monsters".

>>28339897
I remember that!

Route 3 in BW2 has an area of grass with seven grass sprites in one column, instead of 6, making it look quite strange. This is directly next to the Nacrene City gate.

>>28339907
When ORAS demo was datamined all the trainers and their Pokémon (with nature, IVs, moves and abilities) were posted on an online note and it showed that depending on where are you on the region the IVs of a Pokemon were always in a set number. The early route trainer's Pokemon have 0 IVs across even when rematched through PokéNav.

Even if you trade away your Lati or put it into Bank, you can still use the Eon Flute to Soar.

>>28341120
That's a useful fact though.

>>28341172
You're right, I guess that's pretty handy to know.

In X/Y is virtually impossible for a wild Pokemon to get out of pokeball until the end of the first forest.

In the ORAS data there is a new move called "Soar" but it only has a name, not a category, BP or accuracy. When you use the Eon Flute you ARE ACTUALLY telling the game to use this move.

Bisharp is the only Pokemon that Defiant is not its HA.

When Game Freak introduces an item then it appears in the next game as leftover content with a chance that it will be introduced again (Poké Radar is in the data of HGSS, Gen V, and ORAS even when neither of this game allows you to use it).

Riolu was one of the little amount of Pokemon that could be caught in every game since its introduction... until ORAS were released. At least DexNav allows you to register a Lucario on Battle Resort.

Even when Gen V removed the contest, it didn't removed the contest stats, making that a Feebas that has a high Beauty stat can be evolved on Milotic in Unova and Kalos, regions that otherwise have a Trade-Evo item. (On HGSS Blue's sister not only increases the friendshp stat, she also increases Beauty stat, avoiding the need of a Hoenn/Sinnoh game only to evolve it)

>>28339863
There's video evidence

>>28341486
That is actually a useful fact because it let you catch a Pokemon without battling.

>>28340201
>HGSS
Not really desu

>>28341486
They made the game easy on purpose !

>>28340241
that dank card meme 10/10

>>28341587
>In the ORAS data there is a new move called "Soar" but it only has a name, not a category, BP or accuracy. When you use the Eon Flute you ARE ACTUALLY telling the game to use this move.
I can't believe GF are actually so incompetent they had to create a new move just to get this textbox to appear.

>>28341588
Fucking Uri Geller

>>28341625
>>28341658
>>28341486
lies

It only works on the first route. It doesnt include the forest.

The next Pokemon games in the series are titled "Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon". Pretty interesting, unknown, little fact.

>>28339642
Kabuto us able to learn Surf by TM in every generation except Gen 2.

>>28341685
this

Also, in XY you first encouter will always be a pidgey on the second row of grass, in the first grass patch

>>28339918
Eh, no. The "transparent" parts of its wings are just part of the background palette color that every sprite has.

>>28340044
Oh I remember that spot, also in pokéstar studios there's a tree you can surf on.

>>28339814
>proud of its power
Now that's a meme I've not heard in a long time

>>28341667
seems like a pretty clever solution desu, especially since HMs already do things in the overworld

As of right now, Tynamo and its evolutions are the only pokemon with no weaknesses. There was also a monster in Pokestar Studios that was ghost/dark with wonder guard as its ability, so that'd be the only "pokemon" that could never take damage

Hydriegon's evolutionary line was originally based on tanks, the German numbers in their names and the purple tank-tread-esque stripes are leftovers from this original idea.

Tornadus is the only pure flying type pokemon

Marill was officially referred to as Pikablu on only one occasion

An literal Pikablu is a member of the Nova Corps. I'm serious, look it up.

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>>28341938
>only "pokemon" that could never take damage
Because Sand and pebbles and poison and confusion don't exist.

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>>28342058
I'm sorry, DIRECT damage
Feel better, anon?

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>>28342128
No. Confusion is direct damage because it is based off of the users Attack stat, rather than a flat percent, like sand or poison.

You dummy.

>>28340044
On that note, gen 1 terrain tiles are made up of four smaller blocks. The Japanese version uses the bottom-left to determine what the entire tile is, while the US version uses the bottom-right. The result is that there are a bunch of grass tiles in Viridian Forest that have flowers in the bottom-right corner and thus the English game doesn't recognize them as grass and no Pokemon can spawn there. It's not technically useless, since speedrunners do abuse this to get through the forest faster.

I also might be mixing up the two corners.

Ditto under level 10 can be found in HGSS, allowing you to trade seemingly impossible requests on the GTS.

More:

Gen VI broken many streaks, some of them are: Grass starter isn't a reptile, Fire starter last evo wasn't a Fire/Fighting type AND it doesn't have flames as part of its design, Water starter last evo isn't a slow sweeper.

Rotom Pokédex isn't the first Pokédex that is modeled after an existing mobile device.

>>28341977
Nintendo in charge of promoting Pokemon franchise outside of japan.

>>28342315
>Rotom Pokédex isn't the first Pokédex that is modeled after an existing mobile device.

What about the XY dex that looks like a smartphone?

>>28341977
>an enormous amount of fun was had by all
English is not my native language, but this sentence sounds unnatural and wrong.

>>28340241
Oh yeah, another fact:
Abra-line doesn't have any cards anymore thanks to fear of Uri Geller

>>28342433
It's correct, but awkwardly phrased.

>>28342450
Abra line still has cards. It's only Kadabra that doesn't. They have to do all sorts of silly workarounds to make it work.

>>28342433
It's not wrong grammar but it does sound weird.

Bulbasaur is based off the Caterpillar Fungus. The only place this has ever been mentioned is in Shoko-tan's autobiography.

Mewtwo looks like Freeza, Mega Mewtwo X looks like Janemba mixed with Cooler, and Mega Mewtwo Y looks like Super Buu. Shadow Mewtwo performs an attack similar to Frieza's Death Ball in Pokken Tournament.

>>28342204
Wrong! It's not direct damage, it's REdirected damage

Noibat and Noivern are the only dual type Pokemon with Flying as its primary type.

>>28342380
>isn't modeled after an EXISTING mobile device.
Smartphone is an EXISTING mobile device, but XY Pokedex is modeled after a tablet, not a smartphone.

>>28342521
Shoko-tan just finished giving rimjobs to the cats of the whole district when she wrote that.

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>>28339732
it's useless because everyone knows it
and also slowking is pretty useless desu

>>28342483
>Instead of prevent making the whole line inexistant in TCG let's make only one stage inexistant
>INSTEAD OF RETCONNING OUT AN EPISODE THAT SENT CHILDREN TO HOSPITAL LET'S MAKE NOT ONE STAGE, BUT THE WHOLE FUCKING LINE INEXISTANT IN THE ASHNIME
At least isn't Porygon.

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Fun fact:

When Ash Ketchum auditioned to be a Pokémon Master, he only had $11. When Professor Oak gave Ash his first paycheck, the first thing Ash bought was a hot meal.

>>28342450
>Uri Geller
Literally who

>>28340086
just like any other Hoennfag

>>28342684
this baffles me,
why the fuck didn't they just drop the uri geller aspect and slightly redesign it?

>>28341706
Omastar learns Hydro Pump earlier than Omanyte in gen I

>>28339642
In Gen VI games after you win a battle against a 3D trainer your character does a victory pose, if you win a battle against an artwork trainer this doesn't happen.

Fire Fang would always ignore Wonder Guard even if the Pokemon has a type that is either neutral or strong against Fire up until Gen V.

>>28342483
Actually, about that... the last Abra card came out almost a decade ago. Alakazam only just recently showed back up since then as a basic Pokemon card earlier this year so that they could have a Mega Alakazam card.

>>28339642
>Sun and Moon is what's known as "Gen 6.5"

>>28339874
>no guts
It tried

>>28341687
source or fake

The song that plays during Arceus' event at the Sinjoh Ruins in HG/SS was supposed to be its battle theme for when you encountered it in the cut Hall of Origin in D/P. Also, speaking of D/P, in the day one release of the Japanese version there were several mapping errors that could be exploited including being able to Surf on the floor in one of the Elite Four rooms that would eventually lead the player to a dummied out Darkrai event.

>>28343283
That is the direct opposite of useless.

You may think your favourite pokémon is any good but it's actually the worst one, this is a little illusion your brain goes through for a currently unknown reason.

>>28342900
I think he's the "psychic" that bends spoons.

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>>28342966

Because Geller is a hack.

The other two members in the line are also named after magicians as an homage, not to slander them. Also for all the psychic energy he claimed to have he sure lacked the sense to get Kadabra banned everywhere, not just the card game which took a significant nosedive in popularity compared to the show and games.

Anyways, on topic: the island in Amity Square resembles Sinnoh

>>28343338

Actually it kinda is. They fixed that shit in all of the foriegn releases and eventually swapped in a patched version domestically.

>>28342670
what the fuck
where did that come from and who is Shoko-tan

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>>28343523
>who is Shoko-tan

Type her name on google images

>>28339642
>Thrash in gen 5 sounds like the opening of the Super Mario theme
>Bastiodon has a Thwomp sound effect in its cry

>>28342900
Jewish Wizard with the power to sue anything related to the words 'Power' 'Psychic' 'Spund' 'Bend' 'Ball' or 'Light'

>>28343704
*Spoon

>>28340198
Ratechate

>>28340105
Rhyhorn, actually, but true.

>>28343431
Thats actually pretty neat

>>28340105
And Parasect as Mewtwo, a truckload of pokémon share the same or slightly varied cries in gen 1

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zorua's tuft resembles a paintbrush

>>28342284
This isn't true. Ditto appears at level 10 in HGSS, but not lower.

>>28343479

Bank also blocks any Darkrai and Shaymin caught in D/P as a result.

>>28343283
>in the day one release of the Japanese version there were several mapping errors that could be exploited including being able to Surf on the floor in one of the Elite Four rooms that would eventually lead the player to a dummied out Darkrai event.

I remember and did that, it was so easy to screw up and end up being permanently stuck in the underground because you could end up out of bounds.

Technically if you can imagine a being that can cross dimensions said being should be able to come into the real universe, Palkai can cross dimensions.

>>28339918
Skrelp also has transparent fins

There's a trainer in the Battle Chateau with a Flabébé that incorrectly has Floette's cry.

If you fight Red in HGSS on a day where Diamond Dust falls instead of the normal snow, there will be no Hail effect during the battle.

Due to a change in one of the in-game trades, but a failure to alter the text to match, a man on Cinnibar will tell you that the Raichu you traded him went and evolved. In the Japanese version of the games, he wants a Kadabra.

Legendary Pokémon are difficult to name since they have to be consistent across all languages. The only legendaries to have their names changed from the Japanese version to the English version are Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Thundurus, and Tornadus.

>>28344346
Are they transparent or translucent?

New York's (the state that Unova was based off on) State Shell is the Scallop. Now look at what's on Oshawott's belly.

>>28341667
That isn't incompetence, that's called taking a clever shortcut. Or being lazy as fuck depending on your opinion. Either way though, making a new set of code just for soaring would've opened the gate for a shitload of bugs. By simply re-using the overworld GM system, they could implement soaring and easily bug check it.

>>28340105
It should have been Rhyhorn who had its cry changed.

>>28345597
>Legendary Pokémon are difficult to name since they have to be consistent across all languages
Why do they have to be consistent?

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Pawniard and Bisharp's Japanese names have absolutely nothing to do with chess.

Gen 1 and 2 starters have the same six stat values. Typhlosion's spread is identical, Meganium swaps Def and SpA, and Feraligatr rearranges everything except Def and Spe.

>>28345697

Well now I there's such a thing as state shells

>>28345495
I battled her today. Her trainer is Lady Francine.

>>28345597
Tapu Koko had a name change, too. Type: Null, too, but it's as of yet unclear as to whether it's going to be considered a legendary or not.

>>28345978
Most likely for easy global recognition. Arguably the same reason that Pikachu and every Pikaclone retained their Japanese names in every localization (besides Emonga/Emolga, due to not wanting it to sound like a British slur).

>>28345978
Imagine that you want a legendary but you must look for it on GTS, and you just type its name, then no matter the language any people know what legendary you want.

>>28346214
>Pawniard and Bisharp's Japanese names have absolutely nothing to do with chess.

Doesn't it reference Shogi instead? Which is pretty much the Japanese equivalent of chess.

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>>28340241

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Gastly's japanese name is Ghos, Haunter is Ghost.
Also, Yanmega's japanese name is Megayanma.

>>28340105
>play Aerodactyl cry
>play Vileplume cry
>???
this has bothered me since a kid.

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>>28346506
>Had Mega Evolution remained a thing, Yanmega would have never gotten one due to sheer lack of foresight when naming it

>>28340105
>>28340167
>>28344030
>>28346530
Machop and Omanyte, too.

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>>28346227
There's a shitload of "State X" items with varying degrees of relevancy. Dogs, trees, flowers, shells, rocks, birds, and a lot more. It's pretty ridiculous, and leaves me wondering why we catalogued so many items like this. Perhaps some weird way of drawing attention to them, or giving people a reason to want to preserve them?

Dual-typed Ghost Pokemon are (or were) for the most part, unique. Out of 13 combinations, only 2 had more than one family line (Dark and Grass) for the first 6 generations. Of those two types, Grass actually introduced both of its families in the same generation (VI).
Generation VII has, so far, unveiled 5 new dual-typed Ghost-type Pokemon or families, and 0 single-typed. 4 of the 5 are duplicates of existing combinations (Fire, Ground, Psychic, Flying), leaving Mimikyu's Ghost/Fairy typing as the only new, unique combination so far.
There is a combination Dark/Ghost Pokestar Studios opponent, which is the third instance of that type combination, but it's not a proper Pokemon.

Rotom's Heat, Mow, and Frost forms are the only instances of Electric-type being combined with Fire, Grass, and Ice. This means that just 1 Pokemon manages to encompass 4 unique type combinations.

>>28346650
Caterpie and Goldeen too. They apparently didn't have enough storage for 151 unique cries so they modified existing ones.

>>28340105
>>28347078
If I remember right, the first generation only had like 7 unique cries. Everything was just pitch-shifted or slowed-down/sped-up to make it sound different enough.
Might have been more than 7, but I'm pretty sure it was hilariously small compared to 151 Pokemon.